Garfield Center for the Arts Short Attention Span Theatre 2025

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Deadline: March 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM

It’s that time of year again! The Garfield Center for the Arts (Chestertown Maryland) is embarking on the exciting annual adventure in theatre known as “Short Attention Span Theatre”. For those not in the know, that’s our annual 10-minute play festival. Performance dates are July 11-13, July 18-20 and July 25-27.

We are seeking scripts for 10-minute plays.

We love all playwrights but most of all we love supporting our local playwrights. We started Live Playwrights’ Society(LPS) with this in mind. There is no cost to be a member. Just show up for a meeting!

• LPS members may submit up to five 10-minute plays.

• Non-LPS members may submit two 10-minute plays. Choose your very best!

We anonymize submitted scripts before they are read by our panel of judges, so please refrain from putting your name anywhere except an optional cover sheet. (Seriously, please don’t make our anonymizer’s job any harder — thanks!)

We will stop accepting submissions after we receive 300 scripts.
Please send your scripts in PDF format.
Your play will fare better if it is well formatted. Look for links on the Live Playwrights’ Society site for tips on formatting.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

Here is our play selection process:

Submissions are anonymized and then read by our panel of judges.

Our panel of judges selects a number of submitted plays which are then offered to our group of directors.

You can see which plays made it through to directors on the SAST info page: https://www.garfieldcenter.org/sast/#playwrights

Our directors select from this list (in addition to a list of published plays).

We will announce our final selections by June 1st.

Questions? Email sastplays@garfieldcenter.org

Good luck & get to typing

Mark Sullivan
SAST 2025 Executive Producer